Victories: Wildlife

July 2014 Mid-America Apartment Communities, the country’s seventh-largest apartment management company, implemented a brand-new glue trap policy after hearing from PETA.

June 2014 ezStorage agreed to stop using inhumane glue traps in all 47 of its locations after hearing from PETA.

June 2014 After learning that the San Antonio Zoo hastily removed more than 230 egret nests, which resulted in the death of at least four egrets, PETA campaigned to stop the zoo from removing more birds from the site. The zoo decided to wait until after nesting season to make the site less attractive to … Read more »

June 2014 After being alerted that an international carnival entertainment company was giving goldfish away as prizes, PETA persuaded company executives to stop this practice.

May 2014 We received calls regarding a bird deterrent net at a New Hampshire mall that had fallen into disrepair, so we contacted the property management company, and it immediately got workers out to flush the birds from the netting and repair it.

PETA contacted the store’s CEO and manager, who made the compassionate decision to remove the poison and to use anti-roosting coils instead.

After a complainant alerted us to a severely crowded koi fish pond at a chain restaurant, we contacted the chain’s CEO.

The university agreed to use other methods and consider PETA’s deterrent suggestions.

The General Services Administration agreed to eliminate glue traps at its properties throughout New England!

April 2014 After PETA contacted the director and board members of the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota, the organization made the compassionate decision to cancel the launch of 60,000 balloons that would potentially injure countless animals.

After PETA received a report that a market was selling live frogs tied up in individual netted bags, we got local law-enforcement officers to investigate.

The apartment complex’s owners pulled the Avitrol and agreed not to use any poisons in the future.

Georgia House Bill (H.B.) 423 would have allowed the use of live raccoons in field trials, but luckily the bill was defeated.

Google removed a game that challenges users to kill digital cockroaches, following PETA input.

After intense public pressure, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation banned the retail sale of second generation rodent poisons.